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There's no doubt smoking is bad for pregnant women, but hands off Chrissie Swan. View the full article

Washington, February 7 (ANI): Smoking marijuana may double the risk of stroke in young adults, according to new research. View the full article

A YOUNG child is believed to have been home when a WA man allegedly attempted to make methylamphetamine, police say. View the full article

Gunmen have killed nine Mexican police officers and wounded another in an ambush in Guerrero. View the full article

There's no doubt smoking is bad for pregnant women, but hands off Chrissie Swan. View the full article

Marijuana is kind of like sex. People can’t get enough of either one of them, at least not in the form of Internet headlines, which only partially accounts for why marijuana is making so much news this week. View the full article

WASHINGTON - Advocates for the legalization of marijuana in the United States are infused with fresh hope amid changing public attitudes about weed and federal financial woes that are prompting politicians to rethink America's monstrously expensive war on drugs. View the full article

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Gunmen have killed nine Mexican police officers and wounded another in an ambush in Guerrero, a southwestern state beset by a crime wave from its Acapulco resort to its rural mountains, prosecutors said Wednesday. View the full article

MADRID (AFP) - Spanish police said Wednesday they had seized 4. View the full article

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) is gearing up for their Spring Conference to be held May 14--17, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. ASCP is proud to announce professional ... View the full article

Researchers believe their research of 160 stroke patients shows cannabis users are 2.3 times more likely to have a stroke than other patients. The study of 160 stroke and mini-stroke victims, aged between 18 and 55, was presented to a stroke conference in Hawaii this week. It showed they were 2.3 times more likely than other patients to have cannabis detected in urine tests. But the association is confounded because all but one of the stroke patients who were cannabis users also used tobacco regularly. View the full article

It makes most people a little foggy-headed, but scientists are investigating whether an active ingredient in cannabis could actually stave off dementia. View the full article

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The medical marijuana shop next to a tattoo parlor on a busy street in Los Angeles looks much like hundreds of other pot dispensaries that dot the city. Except for one thing: On the glass door - under a green cross signaling that cannabis can be bought there for medical purposes - is a sticker for the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the nation ... View the full article

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., announced that he introduced legislation on Tuesday that would de-federalize marijuana and create a framework for federal taxation of cannabis. The bill, that was co-sponsored by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., would follow Colorado's model of regulating marijuana like alcohol. Here are the details. View the full article

A TOOWOOMBA man who was a “crop sitter” for a 51-plant marijuana crop growing inside a water tank will be subject to random drug testing for the next 18 months. View the full article